The Ming Sisters
Designer Betty Woodman American
Not on view
Woodman's audacious work grew out of the 1970s Pattern and Decoration movement, which reacted to modernist abstraction by elevating ready-made patterns and "applied" art forms—such as ceramics—to the status of high art. Her colorful, witty, and nonfunctional vessels were inspired by diverse sources, from Chinese porcelain to Etruscan sculpture to Italian majolica pottery. For this brightly-painted ceramic trio, the artist looked to domestic scenes found in Japanese ukiyo-e woodcuts. Notes (left to right): D2, E flat 2, D3.
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